Averil Power (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

-----and our support for two states, the states of Palestine and Israel, living together, but everybody needs to be on the same page. It is ridiculous to hear Israeli speakers say it would be wrong to have unilateral recognition of Palestine when in the aftermath of a ceasefire in Gaza, after it had left ruination, murder and carnage behind, it started to build more settlements and did everything it could to undermine a two state solution. At the very least, the tiniest symbolic move we can make is to stand with the Palestinian people, row in behind our Swedish and UK colleagues, and recognise the Palestinian state and do everything we can to help bring it about.